Kevin L Cope
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin L Cope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cope |
| SIGNATURE | COPE K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1598-0668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The decisional logic of treaty regime-making
This Article develops a positive, decision-theoretical model of the logic that states or sub-national polities use in deciding to delegate sovereignty to a multilateral treaty regime. Rather than solving one or more specific regime-design problems, this Article develops a general framework for analyzing regime creation given a variety of cooperation problems and other assumptions. Perhaps most importantly, it introduces a dual-ideal-point framewo…
Contexts for Kant's Libido
An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology
This article develops the first dynamic method for systematically estimating the ideologies and other traits of nearly the entire federal judiciary. The Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores (JuDJIS) method derives from computational text analysis of over 20,000 written evaluations by a representative sample of tens of thousands of jurists as part of an ongoing, systematic survey initiative begun in 1985. The resulting data constitute not only …
Support for Constitutional Rights During Crisis
During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected rights. These policies are frequently adopted by the executive, permitted by the courts and legislative branches, and appear to be supported by the public. But it is not apparent whether the public is less supportive of these policies than they would otherwise be because of these constitutional rules.…
Methods for comparative migration law
The nascent field of comparative migration law can do more than classify different approaches to migration law; it is well-positioned to address important open questions about law's impact on migrants, migration, and citizens. It can also help us better understand how and why countries enact certain immigration laws. To do so, researchers must draw on methods from the disciplines that have long studied migration institutions both comparatively an…
Methods for comparative migration law
Migrant-Family Separation and Higher-Order Laws’ Diverging Normative Force
A growing experimental literature suggests that international law has a larger impact on public opinion than constitutional law. Because the former US policy of separating migrant families at the border arguably runs afoul of both the Constitution and international law, it provides an unusual opportunity to simultaneously explore the normative pull of these norms experimentally. We fielded national surveys in 2018 and 2020, asking respondents how…
The Global Evolution of Foreign Relations Law
The constitutional rules that govern how states engage with international law have profound implications for foreign affairs, yet we lack comprehensive data on the choices countries make and their motivations. We draw on an original dataset that covers 108 countries over a nearly two-hundred-year period to map countries’ foreign relations law choices and trace their evolution. We find that legal origins and colonial legacies continue to account f…
Can Rights Discourse Diminish Support for Displaced Persons
Human rights discourse has become central to the global debates about treatment of and solutions for refugees and displaced persons. Following the expansion of rights-oriented terminology generally, advocates for displacees have increasingly framed their arguments in human rights terms. Many believe that human rights discourse can help mobilize humanitarian solutions for people fleeing violence and persecution. However, we argue that the backlash…
The limits of information revelation in multilateral negotiations
States negotiate over the specific terms of multilateral treaties because those terms determine states’ willingness to ratify the treaty. In some cases, a state might decline to ratify a treaty it otherwise supports because specific terms are too far from those it prefers. States and inter-governmental organizations negotiating treaties would like to uncover the minimal terms needed to secure the ratification of key states, but under what circums…
Patterns of disagreement in indicators of state repression
Until recently, researchers who wanted to examine the determinants of state respect for most specific negative rights (i.e., physical integrity and empowerment rights) needed to rely on data from the CIRI or the Political Terror Scale (PTS). The new Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset offers scholars a potential alternative to the individual human rights variables from CIRI. We analyze a set of key Cingranelli–Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data…
Empirical Studies of Human Rights Law
A growing body of empirical studies has provided important insights into our understanding of the causes and effects of codified human rights. Yet empirical research has treated human rights treaties and constitutional rights as separate domains, even though the two regimes offer many of the same rights protections and can interact and reinforce each other. In this article, we review these two bodies of literature, focusing on two lines of inquir…
The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts
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Constitutions
Frenetic Walks in Too Many Parks, or, What Valerian Couldn’t Cure
Book Review| April 01 2015 Frenetic Walks in Too Many Parks, or, What Valerian Couldn’t Cure: The Chronic Careers of “Sir” John Hill Rousseau, George. The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Era of Celebrity. (Bethlehem: Lehigh Univ., 2012). Pp. xxxii+ 392.$90 Kevin L. Cope Kevin L. Cope Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 111–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/0098…
Pious Times and Priestcraft Begin Again
Book Review| January 01 2009 Pious Times and Priestcraft Begin Again: The Upright Sexuality of the Enlightenment Sophie Carter. Purchasing Power: Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print Culture. British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 (Burlington: Ashgate, 2004). Pp. 224. 37 ills. $89.95, £49.95. ISBN 0-7546-0629-5Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell, eds. Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eightee…
The lost generation
The Culture of Contention
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. C…
Models of Value
Forms of Reflection
As opposed to a cultural history of literature, writes David Hill Radcliffe, 'Forms of Reflection' is literary history of In writing a history of meditational writings from Donne to Coleridge, Radcliffe aims to develop a historically-informed account of how one particular genre funtioned as an agent of change in the early modern era - and uses that understanding to challenge the ways in which criticism is practised today. Radcliffe argues that ge…
Teaching Satire
Intentionality and the New Traditionalism
Compendious Conversations
Patterns of disagreement in indicators of state repression
Until recently, researchers who wanted to examine the determinants of state respect for most specific negative rights (i.e., physical integrity and empowerment rights) needed to rely on data from the CIRI or the Political Terror Scale (PTS). The new Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset offers scholars a potential alternative to the individual human rights variables from CIRI. We analyze a set of key Cingranelli–Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data…
Empirical Studies of Human Rights Law
A growing body of empirical studies has provided important insights into our understanding of the causes and effects of codified human rights. Yet empirical research has treated human rights treaties and constitutional rights as separate domains, even though the two regimes offer many of the same rights protections and can interact and reinforce each other. In this article, we review these two bodies of literature, focusing on two lines of inquir…
The limits of information revelation in multilateral negotiations
States negotiate over the specific terms of multilateral treaties because those terms determine states’ willingness to ratify the treaty. In some cases, a state might decline to ratify a treaty it otherwise supports because specific terms are too far from those it prefers. States and inter-governmental organizations negotiating treaties would like to uncover the minimal terms needed to secure the ratification of key states, but under what circums…
The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The decisional logic of treaty regime-making
This Article develops a positive, decision-theoretical model of the logic that states or sub-national polities use in deciding to delegate sovereignty to a multilateral treaty regime. Rather than solving one or more specific regime-design problems, this Article develops a general framework for analyzing regime creation given a variety of cooperation problems and other assumptions. Perhaps most importantly, it introduces a dual-ideal-point framewo…
Support for Constitutional Rights During Crisis
During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected rights. These policies are frequently adopted by the executive, permitted by the courts and legislative branches, and appear to be supported by the public. But it is not apparent whether the public is less supportive of these policies than they would otherwise be because of these constitutional rules.…
Can Rights Discourse Diminish Support for Displaced Persons
Human rights discourse has become central to the global debates about treatment of and solutions for refugees and displaced persons. Following the expansion of rights-oriented terminology generally, advocates for displacees have increasingly framed their arguments in human rights terms. Many believe that human rights discourse can help mobilize humanitarian solutions for people fleeing violence and persecution. However, we argue that the backlash…
The lost generation
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 14
Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels
Englische Literatur in der Gottinger Universitatsbibliothek des 18. Jahrhunderts
The Soft Machine
Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought
The Wayward Professor
This wry portrayal of academic life will delight anyone who has ever spent time on a college campus. Writing with lightly satirical, self-deprecating charm, Joel Gold covers topics ranging from academic conventions to motivating recalcitrant students, from grantsmanship to the I.R.S., from the follies and foibles of academics to sabbaticals and living overseas. Twenty-six tales are illustrated with caricatures that capture perfectly the diffident…
Addison and Steele Are Dead
Locke and the Scriblerians
Anglistentag 1989 Wurzburg
Criteria of Certainty
Criteria of Certainty
Teaching Satire
Intentionality and the New Traditionalism
Compendious Conversations
Text-Culture-Reception
Forms of Reflection
As opposed to a cultural history of literature, writes David Hill Radcliffe, 'Forms of Reflection' is literary history of In writing a history of meditational writings from Donne to Coleridge, Radcliffe aims to develop a historically-informed account of how one particular genre funtioned as an agent of change in the early modern era - and uses that understanding to challenge the ways in which criticism is practised today. Radcliffe argues that ge…
Models of Value
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. C…
The Culture of Contention
The lost generation
Pious Times and Priestcraft Begin Again
Book Review| January 01 2009 Pious Times and Priestcraft Begin Again: The Upright Sexuality of the Enlightenment Sophie Carter. Purchasing Power: Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print Culture. British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 (Burlington: Ashgate, 2004). Pp. 224. 37 ills. $89.95, £49.95. ISBN 0-7546-0629-5Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell, eds. Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eightee…
Constitutions
Frenetic Walks in Too Many Parks, or, What Valerian Couldn’t Cure
Book Review| April 01 2015 Frenetic Walks in Too Many Parks, or, What Valerian Couldn’t Cure: The Chronic Careers of “Sir” John Hill Rousseau, George. The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Era of Celebrity. (Bethlehem: Lehigh Univ., 2012). Pp. xxxii+ 392.$90 Kevin L. Cope Kevin L. Cope Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 111–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/0098…
The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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